Extremely confused by Laptop Hard Drive 1

[Ploper001]

Windows XP tells me the drive is ATA (UDMA 5) on IDE Channel 0.

SiSoft Sandra tells me it's also ATA UDMA 5.

However, this laptop has an SATA Controller according to Windows XP, and since the DVD+RW Drive is ATA, why is it there if both drives are ATA?

Lastly, I have removed the HDD from the laptop, and on the Fujitsu sticker, it says "SATA".



So.....what kind of drive is it, ATA or SATA?!?

 

[cdogg]

No it's not always the case. It might be for the motherboard in your laptop, but on my home system, I have my SATA drives showing up under the SATA controller in Device Manager - not the Primary IDE entry.

~cdogg
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[Ploper001]

Well in my SATA Controller properties window, there aren't any tabs at all that say what's connected to it (only the usual General, Driver, Details and Resources - nothing like "Settings" etc.)...

 

[LawnBoy]

Good info there, cdogg.